Out of the park

This early, very dense state has an energy density of 3-4 GeV/fm3 and the equivalent of a temperature of around 240 MeV. The conditions suppress the number of J-psis (charmonia), enhance strangeness, and begin to drive the expansion of the fireball.

I’m not sure I buy it. They’re reevaluating when this seven-foot duck was around by the concentrations of certain rare-earth elements in its bones, and that can be sketchy. Especially when it puts this flightless bird as invading the North American continent from South America before the land-bridge between the continents formed. I fucking well doubt they built a raft, as this article suggests.

Remember back when music came in collections called “albums” rather than one track at a time from online music stores? One reason for going to CDs from LP records was to make images like this a quarter of the original size, and now you don’t have to see them at all in order to hear a track you might enjoy.But now you don’t necessarily get the visual warning that would tell you whether what you’re about to hear is absolute crap. Oh well. You take the good with the bad.

Successive portions of the image are rebalanced to maximize the amount of detail, reducing the amount of image that gets “blown out” in highlights or lost in shadow. The human eye does this automatically as you look at different parts of your field of view, with the pupil constricting and dilating to control the amount of light allowed to hit the retina. A print of a photograph pretty much picks one level of exposure and sticks with it unless you play with dodging and burning. Usually quite a bit more detail is captured on the negative that you get to see.Digitally speaking, though, what you see is what you get. Photoshop can help a bit, depending on the quality of the image-capture. However, if you take, say, five simultaneous (or nearly simultaneous) pictures at different exposure levels and merge them, you get all the detail you would have caught had you actually been there … plus a little.

I can’t imagine how expensive the camera would be that could do this on the fly. But I want one. Also, I want the movie camera that can do this. Oh. And the talent to be able to use it effectively.

You finally move your double-wide out of Tornado Alley, and now you have to dodge meteorites.Remember that you won’t be able to get financing unless you take the wheels off and build a skirt around it to keep the Mooninites out from underneath. But frankly I’d worry more about Dumbassahedratron.

Oily yellow and orange snowflakes fell over an area of more than 1,500sq km (570sq miles) in the Omsk region on Wednesday, Russian officials said.

Chemical tests were under way to determine the cause, they said.

Residents have been advised not to use the snow for household tasks or let animals graze on it.

“So far we cannot explain the snow, which is oily to the touch and has a pronounced rotten smell,” said Omsk environmental prosecutor Anton German, quoted by the Russian news agency Itar-Tass on Thursday.

Sure, sure. Given a choice of healing scrofula or AIDS, it would be more useful if your typical state leader’s touch could cure the more deadly of the two.Not sure what GWB’s touch cures. Crippling tax burdens, I think. Only for those touched.

Very educational, this. But it’s definitely missing something. Like position statements and comments from ignoramuses that espouse religions other than Christianity, or, better yet, buffoons that believe in science as if it were a religion. Fair is fair.

Strange, strange stuff. Coat your tongue with the glycoprotein in this berry, and, for the next half hour to an hour, sour and bitter cease to exist. It’s kind of a survival trait to be able to taste the pH of the substances you ingest, but, if you don’t care that your food might be killing you anyway, this might be worth the risk.After a dose of goofily-named “miraculin”, you can bite into a lime, right through the rind, and it’ll taste just like candy.

Lobsters are strange creatures of the abyss that exist on Earth to spy on human behavior. They accomplish this by allowing themselves to be caught by the human scum, then be eaten by the human scum. Unbeknownst to the human scum, the lobster’s thrown away shell, fully cooked, transmits a photon signal from Earth back to their home plant, Crustacea (cruss-tay-shee-uh). The elite Crustese (cruss-teez) then take the transmitted information to learn of the human scums’ behavior and conversation, thus gaining access to secretive human scum brains.

Utilizing this information, the Crustese Lobsters will soon travel from their home world to Earth, plotting to take away every sorce of coffee and watermelons. Until then, all the human scums can do is sit, wait, and eat a fresh lobster.

This one time my cat came in from outside and brought me a present. It’s what cats do. If they think you’re having trouble remembering when mealtimes are — or perhaps you just keep a food bowl full and it hasn’t sunk in that you’re the one that fills it up — they get the […]